Youth escapes from PLOTE camp

[TamilNet, Monday, 08 March 1999, 04:17 GMT]PLOTE cadres conducted a search operation in the environs of their camp and Jaffna Hospital after a youth, Santhanantham Ravichandran, escaped from the groups camp at Hospital road in Jaffna Town yesterday afternoon.

According to unconfirmed reports from the northern town, the youth has surrendered at an EPDP camp and the EPDP cadres are planning to hand him over to the Police.

The youth is reported to have arraived in Jaffna recently from the Vanni.

It could not be confirmed why Ravichandran had been detained at the PLOTE camp and how he scaped from the camp.